Mon 24 Mar 2008
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There are a lot of people missing out on a very real phenomena when they decide to cut their calories in order to reshape their bodies…
… the downregulation of metabolism.
In case you didn’t know… when the body senses that it’s caloric deficit is getting too high… it begins to catabolize muscle in an effort to reduce the “load” on the body’s energy stores.
This is where steady state cardio (like walking, jogging) come into play as they actually INCREASE your body’s sensitivity to these “load” factors.
The more cardio you do… the larger the deficit… the more the body responds by stripping away hard earned muscle.
If you’re using steady state cardio as an exercise choice, you’re not giving your body a decision to make… it knows that it doesn’t NEED the extra muscle mass because it’s not USING the muscle mass…
I hope you read that.
I was talking to Brad Pilon the other day about his book Eat, Stop, Eat… which is about using flexible, intermittent periods of fasting to assist with weight loss (he’s also one of the authors of the Adonis Effect For Men)… when he brought out some interesting facts that you might want to know about.
1. Resting metabolism is pretty much only effected by the amount of muscle mass that an individual has in all but the most extreme and rare circumstances.
2. The amount of muscle mass KEPT during a period of fasting… or caloric depravation… has MORE to do with the amount of load the muscle is under… than the amount of calories consumed by the individual.
In fact, he was telling me that in one study… men were exposed to 800 calorie per day diets over a pretty long period of time (I forgot how much but I know that it was over 12 weeks) while they used significant amounts of weight training (using heavier weights)… and… that after the study was over, these same men lost only MINISCULE amounts of muscle mass versus men that only did steady state cardio (a dramatic loss of muscle mass in these men).
Something to think about the next time you go to the gym…
October 20th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
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I am really amazed at how it has helped me. I am finding that I am developing muscle mass much easier than I used to. Without a lot of exercise, it looks like I have actually been working out a lot. I have also found that my back muscles feel a lot better after regular and heavy lifting. I carried a large tv uspstairs, with the help of a friend. I had to grab it down low, over and over again with each step, and I was at the top end so I really had to bend. I was sure my back with be very soar for a few days but suprisingly, my back muscles recovered very quickly and I wasnt even soar the next day.
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January 25th, 2010 at 11:49 pm
I really appreciate you taking the time to post this info for readers like me to read.